Rosalind Nashashibi is an artist of Palestinian / Northern Irish heritage based in London. She is a painter and filmmaker preoccupied with looking, to the extent of passing over onto the side of the subject in a way that can be disconcerting and yet empathetic. Her films, shot on 16mm, have a handmade quality with a surprisingly intimate way of communicating a creative process or an experience of communality. Palestine is an enduring subject amongst others in both films and paintings, and in the latter, familiar signs and art historical references become strange and intrigue us into looking at them anew.
Rosalind Nashashibi (b. 1973, London, UK) received her BA in Painting from Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield (UK), after which she attended the Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (UK), where she received her MFA. As part of her Master’s degree, Nashashibi participated in a three-month exchange program in California, CA (US) at CalArts in 1999. In 2020, Nashashibi became artist in residence at the National Gallery in London (UK). She was a Turner Prize nominee in 2017, and represented Scotland in the 52nd Venice Biennale. Her work has been included in Documenta 14, Manifesta 7, the Nordic Triennial, Sharjah 10, and Gothenburg Biennial. She was the first woman to win the Beck’s Futures prize in 2003.
Nashashibi has had solo shows at Artium Museoa, Vitoria-Gasteiz (ES); KM21, Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL); ARCH, Athens (GR); Melas Martinos, Athens (GR); Musée Art Contemporain Carré d’Art, Nîmes (FR); Radvila Palace Museum of Art for CAC, Vilnius (LT); Vienna Secession, Vienna (AT); Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam (NL); The High Line, New York, NY (US); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (US); Imperial War Museum, London (UK); and ICA, London (UK).
Nashashibi has participated in group exhibitions at Z33, Hasselt (BE); CCA Wattis, San Francisco, CA (US); Den Frie, Copenhagen (DK); CRAC Alsace, Altkirch (FR); Centre Georges Pompidou and Forum des Images, Paris (FR); Tate, London (UK); Sculpture Center, New York, NY (US); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (MX); Whitechapel, London (UK); Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main (DE); UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (US).